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To: goldworldnet who wrote (547538)	3/2/2004 8:07:54 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"...my best friend's little sister that I have known since she was 8 years old marries a man and has a son only to be infected with AIDS. Jason is now an orphan and 20 years old and I saw Jason last week." >>> I'm truly sorry to hear that, Goldworldnet.... >>> Do you blame the African monkey population that has harbored this virus for uncounted lengths of time... or the human 'bush meat' hunters who first contracted the virus from them perhaps in the 'fifties or 'fourties (allowing it's modern spread into the larger world) for your family tragedy? >>> Do you blame Man for his expansion into previously pre-modern expanses of rain forests --- bringing himself into contact with viruses, bacteria, fungi, and assorted 'nasties' for the first time in these modern ages, and setting this chain of events into motion? >>> Or, do you blame Nature itself for the very existence of viruses... or for the slow (across many generations) rate of time it takes for a new host species to adapt to an exploitive, aggressive viral infection which has expanded into a new ecological niche? >>> Do you share the blame with God, or perhaps lay it upon the failures of 'modern' medicine, or politicians? >>> How do you apportion blame for an epidemic?